Well, He Just Took The Sky From You, After All

We could feel the enmity from the rest of the Internet this summer when we made Joss Whedon's "Firefly"-"Serenity" series the target of some of our trademark gibes, but we're somewhat saddened to have to report that we won't really have it to kick around anymore. Sure, the DVDs will be continue to be a top-seller, probably, but the movie tanked and as our no. 11 top link says today, Whedon's never going to revive the series beyond its perpetual syndication loop on the Sci-Fi channel. Now, we have seen a couple episodes of this show, and though we found it ludicrous that in the far future people would be wearing overalls and ridiculous boots on space ships, saying things like "I reckon," "Firefly" seemed to have its moments. (Apart from its theme song, which was heavily ladled with weak sauce.) Its Internet devotees, however, will be howling their sorrow for the next ten moons. One postmortem lays the blame square at the feet of the fans: "I would like to congratulate Joss Whedon on admitting that Firefly/Serenity is dead. Remember, Browncoats, it's all your fault for making Yet Another LiveJournal post about the movie, and not just living at the theatre for the seven weeks it was on. Again, to repeat: it was all your fault." Oooh, snap!

Posted by Philip Ewing at December 22, 2005 10:12 AM

Category: On The Telly